the Irish Famine

1. Many of the Irish went over to America during the famine.
   很多爱尔兰人在饥荒期间迁徙到了美国。
2. In1846, the Irish Potato Famine brings Irish Catholics to America, along with their Halloween traditions. 1 J4 v-u2 q.
   1846年，爱尔兰大饥荒爆发，许多爱尔兰天主教徒来到了美国，并带来了他们的万圣节传统。
3. Scientists at Cornell University recently borrowed a gene from a South American potato to make potatoes that resisted the late blight fungus, a devastating disease that caused the Irish potato famine.
   最近，康奈尔学的科学家从南美洲马铃薯中提取了一种基因，改良成一种能抵御晚疫病菌的马铃薯。正是这种毁灭性疾病导致了爱尔兰的马铃薯饥荒。
4. Thousands died or emigrated during the Irish famine.
   在那次爱尔兰饥荒中，数千人饿死或背井离乡。
5. The fungus blamed for the Irish Potato Famine was no the culprit after all.
   被认为造成爱尔兰马铃薯荒的那种真菌，其实并不是罪魁祸首。
6. A century later, it had become the major food crop in Ireland; disastrous damage to the crop by a fungal blight caused the Irish potato famine in the mid-1800s.
   一个世纪后，成为爱尔兰的主要作物，18世纪中期，晚疫霉对马铃薯造成的灾难性破坏引发爱尔兰马铃薯饥荒。
7. And you walked right up to that girl you liked and you could not stop talking about the Irish potato famine?
   你向那个你喜欢的女生走去，然后不住的说爱尔兰的土豆短缺危机？
8. And you could not stop talking about the Irish potato famine?
   然后不住的说爱尔兰的土豆短缺危机？

noun

1. a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight

   Synonym:    the Great Hungerthe Great Starvationthe Great Calamity